After a year’s pause because of the pandemic, the in-person Wake Forest Community Christmas Dinner, the 74th, will be held this year, but due to COVID only half the usual number of tickets is being sold, 150 rather than 300.
The dinner will be held on Monday, Dec. 6, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at The Forks Cafeteria. Tickets are $20 each for the buffet and available at The Forks Cafeteria, the Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce and from local civic club members.
The three community service awards – The Peggy Allen Lifetime Achievement Award, the Citizen of the Year and the Organization of the Year – will be presented, and there will be the usual raffle of the table decorations. Greg Harrington is this year’s chairman of the steering committee.
Actually, there was a ceremony for the Christmas dinner in 2020. The members of the steering committee and Mayor Vivian Jones went to the Renaissance Centre (then closed) and were filmed on Channel 10 announcing the winners of the three awards. There was a program created using Shirley Matheny’s cover drawing that was placed in the archives.
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Re: Community Christmas Dinner
There will NOT be a raffle of table-top decorations this year. I am a member of the Community Christmas Dinner committee and have attended all of the meetings held by Chairman Greg Harrington this year.